Censorship Essay

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Daniel Maddox
Eng1000
We Need Censorship
It won't kill us to make limits, but it might if we don't. That is why it is right to limit adult's freedom of expression. It is in our, societies, best interests to protect the children. Lional Tate is just one example of a child gone badly because of the media. Tate mimicked his idol the Rock, killing a six-year old girl by smashing her skull, pulverizing her liver, breaking her ribs and causing numerous cuts and bruises. If that's not enough of an example what about John McCollum from New Jersey who simply listened to Ozzy Osborne's "Suicide Solution" and killed himself? These are not random occurrences, we hear about them on the news ...view middle of the document...

Now, heroes are usually people who take the law into their own hands, who see an injustice or evil and seek to rectify it personally, sometimes brutally, regardless of the consequences. Such portrayals signal, to a child, society's approval of that behavior. Lacking the judgment that comes with age, a child who feels he has been dealt with unfairly may copy that behavior, with disastrous consequences.
Study after study has shown the destruction behavior from violence, pornography, foul language etc…can have on children. In discussing the role of censorship in the media, surveys conducted by the American Association of Pediatrics and the Federal Department of Health showed a direct correlation between violence in the media and being abusive and secluded in adolescent years and says, “obviously this is an example of one person's freedom of expression being used upon another person's rights, the one situation where limiting freedom of speech is justified”. Numerous organizations that have reviewed innumerable studies, from the UN to the American Psychological Association, all agree that in the ages of childhood, especially up to the age of 7, children are very impressionable. They are prone to imitate what they see and hear. This means a child learns a good vocabulary from his parents,...

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